I guess I should have been more clear, but /opkg/lib/openpkg/bash is my
<prefix>/lib/openpkg/bash, so I do not think it will work with the
quotes.

Thanks,
Aaron

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:40, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004, Aaron Bostick wrote:
> 
> > I like that nohup trick! :)
> >
> > One question though, for some strange reason my bash shell chokes on a
> > quoted $! but works fine with it unquoted.
> >
> > My bash version is:
> >   GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> >   Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >
> > I tried all of the other special parameters with and without double
> > quotes and all worked except for $!.
> >
> > echo "$!" give me:
> >   bash: !": event not found
> > and echo $! gives me the acual process id.
> >
> > I try the same test using /opkg/lib/openpkg/bash and get the same
> > result, but that bash just happens to be the identical version as my
> > gentoo bash.
> >
> > Is this a bug in bash or what?  I only care because as written, your new
> > startup script looks like it might not work on my gentoo system.
> 
> Our startup scripts are executed by our own Bash (<prefix>/lib/openpkg/bash)
> and if this works for you, then the script is not broken.
> But OTOH I think we can remove the quotes anyway...
> 
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